Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 174 Emotion Amplifier

This kind of PPT ending, in version 1.0, was the commander chatting with 95 as they left the city amidst cheers; in version 1.1, it was the commander holding an M4 and talking to himself in the sunset.
But this time, "Final Front" seems to have changed its performance style. Faced with this casual conversation, the leading figure in the distance paused for a moment.

The procession stopped, with only the mournful sound of the night wind blowing through the ruins.

A few seconds later, through the silhouette, he could roughly see the commander open his mouth, but neither the deep voice he expected nor the system subtitles appeared.

The game was completely silent; even the background ambient sounds seemed to have disappeared.

Then, the camera slowly pulls up, bringing the tiny team and the vast ruins into the frame, rising higher and higher.

A melodious yet slightly melancholic children's voice, accompanied by simple string music, slowly rose from the background.

"Jade plate, jade plate"

Why are you hanging from the roof?

As the first line of lyrics appeared, a picture appeared on the screen showing workers welding and assembling the first component of the lunar ring in a huge dock.

"Jade plate, jade plate, why do you offer up your silvery light for nothing?"

The scene flashed by, showing the view of the lunar ring from various corners of the Earth after its completion.

Next, the scenes kept changing in sync with the lyrics.

These scenes are all very evocative of stories. For example, the scene "Have you ever filled a candy box?" depicts a young engineer couple holding their newborn baby on a lunar ring, pointing to the distant Earth through a huge porthole.

"Jade plate, jade plate, have you ever seen the tears that flowed freely at parting?"

The image freezes on the heroes who used their flesh and blood to hold the gate shut, buying "five seconds" for those behind them. Then there's TOZ-81 in its "childhood" form, the first artificial satellite and the first manned spacecraft.
The lyrics are sung line by line.

This song, which Chu Chen brought back from his past life, became an emotional amplifier at this moment, giving players a "comprehensive review" of the entire storyline of version 1.2.

This move is incredibly powerful.
Just like the saying "music knows no borders," the emotional impact of songs on people is actually very strong, and the song "Jade Plate" itself has extremely strong penetrating power.
All the previous emotions were condensed at this moment, and what was condensed was far more than the plot of the game.

Hu Wen, sitting in front of the screen, felt an indescribable electric current surge from his spine to the top of his head.

This song tells more than just the story of version 1.2.

It is also a lunar ring project, a "jade plate," and the stories of people related to the jade plate.
~~~
Hu Wen sat in front of the computer screen.

Even though the main storyline of game 1.2 has ended, a new "Journey of Return" gameplay has begun.

In short, this "Journey of Return" is a special version of the "PVE Roguelike" dungeon where players need to complete the dungeon and reach the designated extraction point.

If it weren't for that last song, Hu Wen might still have been preoccupied with the game, but now, he suddenly felt that he had something more important to do.

After moving the mouse to minimize the game window, I opened QQ and found the person who had sent me the "task" earlier.

"Um, I've almost finished the NetEase order. Are there any spots left for the Black Final Front order?"

There was no reply from the other party for several tens of seconds.

Immediately afterwards, a message popped up.

"Also, should I answer it?"

"catch!"

Hu Wen quickly received a compressed folder, clicked "accept," and watched the progress bar slowly fill up. "This is an urgent order; I need to get a response tonight..."

"receive."

After replying that he had received the message, he opened the newly downloaded compressed file.

Inside, there were various "dirts" categorized into different sections, including maliciously edited video clips, altered QQ screenshots, and more than a dozen smear campaigns written in different styles.

Hu Wen looked at these things expressionlessly, then opened the Final Frontline forum on Baidu Tieba and Bilibili, and then opened the official forum for Final Frontline.

as predicted.

With the first batch of players completing the game, these locations have been completely "overrun".

Under the official post of Bilibili's Final Frontline, the number of comments is increasing at a visible rate, with hundreds or even thousands of new comments appearing every time the page is refreshed.

[I cried so hard, I really cried so hard. I started holding it in from when the engineer blocked the door, and then when that song "Jade Plate" came on, this 1.8-meter-tall guy cried like an idiot in my dorm room.]

TOZ-81 is so cute!! I declare her my new waifu!!

The ending theme music was absolutely amazing. At first, it sounded like a nursery rhyme, but paired with the visuals, it created a truly powerful emotional impact.

Can anyone analyze why the Commander didn't answer that question in the end?

[It's obvious the person upstairs didn't watch the animation. It's not that the Commander didn't answer; it's that every Commander has their own answer, so the official version removed the Commander's voice here... Simply put, this question is from the android!! Commander!]

As for Baidu Tieba, it was a chaotic mess, with countless posts springing up like mushrooms after rain, each with an exaggerated title.

A comprehensive personal analysis of the 1.2 version's storyline, highlighting tear-jerking moments and key details!

A Rational Discussion: Has the Song "Jade Plate" Become a God-Tier Song?

Seeing these discussions, Hu Wen became even more determined to do what he was about to do. Everyone has their own responsibility, and he was going to expose these scandals!
We cannot allow "good people" to be held at gunpoint!

~~~
Final Frontiers version 1.2 became a hit, and at an astonishing speed, as if someone had just lit the fuse and it exploded the moment afterward.

The story was updated at 10 AM, and by the afternoon, the entire anime and manga community seemed to be talking about it. By evening, it wasn't just the anime and manga community anymore; it seemed like the whole internet was discussing it.
This astonishing speed surprised many game developers.
"No way... how much advertising money did they spend?! How could they afford to spend this much?"

Just like a "technician's" ultimate understanding of "not selling" is "Do you think the money isn't enough?"

When many Chinese game developers saw this overwhelming advertising campaign, their first thought was, "Damn, StarCraft really has money to burn, buying so much advertising."

In fact, StarCraft Games' marketing costs for version 1.2 of "Final Front" were really low.

The reason for the "explosive popularity" is that anime-style games themselves have a built-in publicity aura when they are updated with major versions.

Many second-generation games that have been running for several years can easily become popular if a certain version is well done.

The promotional advantage of "Final Battlefront" is even more obvious in this regard.

Compared to other games in the previous game, Final Frontier also had an auto battler mode and a roguelike PVE mode to support its daily active users.

Even during non-major update periods, its global daily active users can still maintain around one million. This number, combined with the storyline of version 1.2 itself, is the reason why the game became so popular.

(End of this chapter)